Ulterior.live
For EHS and operational risk leaders in Oil & Gas and Utilities, safety performance appears to be improving. Improving injury rates does not necessarily mean that exposure to serious injury and fatality (SIF) risks has declined. 

This disconnect is forcing organisations to ask an important question: are traditional safety metrics telling the full story? 

This executive Think Tank will bring together senior safety leaders to discuss why SIF prevention requires a different lens than recordable injury reduction, and what leading organisations are doing to better identify high-energy hazards, verify critical controls, and create stronger visibility into risk before an event occurs.  

Designed as a peer discussion, the conversation will explore how safety strategies are evolving to address the realities of work in high-hazard environments and close the gap between work as planned and work as performed. 

Discussion

Topics

Why injury rates and SIF exposure don't tell the same story: Why organisations with improving safety metrics can still face significant fatality risk, and what that means for modern safety programs.

Focusing prevention on the hazards that matter most: How leading organisations are shifting attention toward high-energy hazards and critical risk exposures rather than relying solely on incident frequency.

Closing the gap between the plan and the field: Understanding the realities of work execution, identifying where controls weaken, and improving visibility into operational risk before serious events occur.

Making critical control management more effective: Practical approaches to verifying that the controls designed to prevent high-consequence events are present, understood, and working as intended.

Turning SIF prevention strategy into operational action: What leaders are changing in their measures of success, operational accountability, and use of field learning to strengthen critical controls and reduce serious injury and fatality risk.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Courtney D. Lewis, CSP

Speaker 1

EHS Advisor at Intelex

Intelex

Courtney is an Environmental, Health, and Safety professional with experience helping organizations improve safety performance, strengthen regulatory compliance, and implement technology solutions that support operational excellence. Throughout her career, she has held EHS leadership roles with organizations in the oil and gas midstream, industrial explosives and automotive manufacturing sectors, before transitioning into enterprise EHS technology through roles with EHS software providers and consulting firms. Her expertise spans environmental compliance, occupational safety, process safety management (PSM), and enterprise EHS software, enabling organizations to build practical, sustainable programs that reduce risk and drive continuous improvement. Area of Expertise: EHS Strategy & Digital Transformation Courtney helps organizations bridge operational EHS challenges with technology solutions that improve compliance, increase efficiency, and strengthen safety culture. By combining practitioner experience with deep knowledge of enterprise EHS systems, she partners with organizations to simplify complex processes, support digital transformation, and deliver practical solutions that create lasting business value.

ABOUT

Intelex

Intelex Technologies is a global leader in Environmental, Health, Safety, and Quality (EHSQ) management software. Since 1992, Intelex has empowered organizations to drive operational excellence, reduce risk, and ensure regulatory compliance through its robust, flexible, and user-friendly cloud-based platform. Serving thousands of businesses across over 150 countries, Intelex enables smarter decision-making by centralizing data and turning insights into action. Backed by global support and continuous innovation, Intelex helps companies build a safer, more sustainable world—one workplace at a time.